Updated Friday July 8, 7.40pm: John Galliano has asserted he won't be collaborating with Topshop any time soon, even if he does get the call. "His only focus for the foreseeable future is concentrating on his rehab," a spokesperson for the designer said tonight. "There is no truth in this rumour."
***Updated Friday July 8, 2.26pm: *** While the fashion world is still speculating - and quite excited - about the prospect of John Galliano designing a Topshop range, we hear from Sir Philip Green that - so far - no conversation has taken place with John himself.
"I saw John Galliano at Kate's wedding last Friday. I did not discuss any business with him then, nor have I since," Green told us.
Updated Friday July 8, 11.31am: Is John Galliano set to create a collection for Topshop? Rumours have emerged this week that Arcadia boss Sir Philip Green could be set to give the designer a return to fashion with a collection to follow his friend Kate Moss' collaboration with the high street store.
Perhaps it was when the three fashion powerhouses converged last week at Moss' Cotswolds wedding that the plan was conceived, but internal discussions - which are said to be in the earliest stages - look set to take place soon. John Galliano worked in Topshop's Oxford Street flagship when he was a student.
If Green secures Galliano's signature, the deal would be the biggest fashion collaboration ever, overshadowing H&M's famously successful link-ups with Lanvin, Lagerfeld and McCartney - and even Topshop's partnerships with Christopher Kane and Moss herself. The move would be a fashion resurrection for Galliano, currently awaiting judgement for charges of public insult in Paris, especially as his return would be under the wing of Green, one of the country's most influential Jewish businessmen.
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